I am always amazed when non-Koreans say they like kimchi because to me, it's the acquired of all acquired tastes out there! I think that if I weren't Korean I would think it was gross.
Do you like kimchi?
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love it! we're korean but my bro hates kimchi. i'm with you. i think if i wasn't korean, i'd probably hate it. it REALLY stinks nasty - not sure how someone would decide to try it haha.
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I love all kimchees. Kkak-doogi and chonggak kimchee are my faves!
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@chopsuey119: Me tooooooooo! I love moo.
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i grew up eating kimchi. my mom LOVES it so i learned to eat it from her. DH is white and he loves kimchi, too, even though his first time eating it was probably in his 20's when i introduced it to him.
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Neither my husband nor I am Korean...but we like kim chee so much I started making it...it's more expensive in the Midwest than it was on the west coast!
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I grew up eating it, so I guess I support your theory. But I have always loved it. Maybe because we made our own and it's hard to go wrong with fresh kimchi!
I think Natto (fermented soybeans) is the ultimate acquired taste... I love it, but most people do not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D -
I like it but I don't HAVE to have it. I like kimchee chigae though. Especially with spam in it. Spam = good! I don't care what people say!
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@mrbee: I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate natto!!! AAAAAH!!!!
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@Rubies: Have you had good natto? Or just the crap they sell at the store...
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Neither me or hubs is korean and we both like it!
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@banana: i'm from hawaii and spam is sooo popular. it is known as the "hawaiian steak" so i was brought up on spam. yum!!!
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@Andrea: i love spam!
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@andrea: oooooh. I love spam musubi. I could eat that all day. How do they make that sweet soy sauce thing in the spam musubi? Do you know?
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@chopsuey119: yay!
@banana: i think there are different variations of spam musubi sauces. there is a teriyaki sauce or some combination of soy sauce/sugar/oyster sauce i think. i never seem to make it as good as restaurants and stores, though!
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I love kimchi but I'm korean. My husband is Korean but he doesn't like fresh kimchi, only when it's in jjigae or fried rice. I had a non-Korean friend who was obsessed with ggakdoogi and chonggak kimchi, which I found hilarious!
I used to love Spam until I sliced one and found an interesting specimen nestled in the "meat". -
Moo kimchis and cucumber kimchi are my faves! (I'm Korean)... DH HATES how it smells.... but LOVES cucumber (O_EEEE) kimchi too
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I love it and I am not Korean. My school friend used to bring it for her lunch every day and we would share.
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I've never had kimchi. I've heard of it but never had it. What is it? I'm vietnamese and don't have any Korean friends. People do ask me if I like fish sauce. I do! I mean not straight from the bottle but made into nuoc mam. Yum! Or great as a mango dipping sauce (fish sauce, sugar, red chili).
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@bluestriped bee: Spicy fermented cabbage. LOL, sounds gross, huh?
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@Rubies: Sort of but I might be willing to try it. What do you eat it with?
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@bluestriped bee: It's a side dish but Koreans eat it with anything and everything!
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I love kimchi and after living in Korea for a year, it's at a whole new level. I used to like it before and my dad actually tried making it when I was young (he's not Korean but likes spicy food) but now, I've acquired the taste for the year old and buried over winter kind!
The region I stayed in Korea is actually known for their kimchi and the one thing DH said before I left was, "I hope the sweet old ladies don't teach you how to make kimchi!" Sadly, it can't be acquired here - I've found some by way of China in a Thai store and it passed, but they never restocked. During the early stages of my pregnancy, I craved it so badly that I resorted to buying the freeze-dried kind on Ebay!
I recently been in contact with the student that gave me a jug his grandma's year old kimchi and I'm tempted to ask for the recipe. Poor DH!
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@Rubies: I've never had it. I bet it's like the Jewish gefilte fish.... no non Jews like that! This Jew doesn't like it either, gross.
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i dunno... i dont think kimchee is so gross. i mean, if you think about cheese spoiled/fermented milk, i think that's just as smelly and gross as kimchee.
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I cannot eat anything spicy. No idea why. My theory is that when my parents had my bro, they raised him on kimchee gook-mool and rice, but by the time they had me they discovered Gerber and I was raised on baby food.
This reminds me of a story my mom told me once... she'd go to a korean restaurant in town for lunch with her coworkers and there was ALWAYS this non-korean guy there enjoying his lunch all alone. When they brought the dishes of ban-chan, he'd eat them all one by one and stack up the dishes as he finished. She said she couldn't stand to watch him eat all that kim chee and khak doo gi and even the slices of raw onion without any rice or anything!
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DH and I love kimchee and neither of us are Korean. @mrbee: I can't stand natto, even the smell is too much and I'm Japanese.
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@mynoahbear: Noo.... say it isn't so!!
Have you had really good natto?
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I loved kimchee until I got pregnant...I would just feel sick whenever I ate it. And I think not eating it for so long did something to my taste buds bc while I can eat it now it just doesn't taste as good to me
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DH and I aren't Korean, but we both like kimchi. I like it more than he does, though. I didn't try it until I got to college, though because my mom didn't like it. It wasn't until I got out of college that I found out my dad really likes kimchi. He just never ate it around my mom because she dislikes it so much.
I've never had natto, but the slime in the pictures doesn't look all that appetizing...
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@mrbee: I've tried good expensive natto and cheap supermarket natto and unfortunately, my palette can't tell the difference. It all tastes the same.....gross
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I am taiwanese and hubs in Chinese and we both LOVE kimchi! We go through at least a huge jar every month. We make kimchi jiggae (stew) every week as well as kimchi fried rice. Now that it's getting hot, we'll probably ease off on the jiggae though, it's our winter comfort food!
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Love it! Just started eating it a few years ago. A) can you eat it while pregnant? I did during my pregnancy, even though I was super paranoid abut listeria and the like... B) do your bf babies like it? I always worry about cabbage products for the baby...
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